Centrifugal Pump Minute Posts

How to Measure Total Dynamic Head

Why is total dynamic head relevant when assessing centrifugal pump performance in the field? Read our newest Centrifugal Pump Minute to discover the importance of calculating total dynamic head, and how it can help centrifugal pump operators understand the proper sizing and scale for a pumping application.
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Optimizing Pump Performance – Best Efficiency Point

What is a centrifugal pump's best efficiency point (BEP), and what are the advantages of operating at the BEP? For answers, check out our latest Centrifugal Pump Minute, which illustrates how calculating and operating your centrifugal pump at its BEP can help optimize system performance.
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Centrifugal Pump Basics: Composite Performance Curves

What are composite pump performance curves? In this edition of the Centrifugal Pump Minute, James Farley, Senior Director of Product Management for Griswold, provides an overview of composite pump performance curves and the importance of using them to calculate pump efficiency.
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Centrifugal Pump Basics: The Importance of Best Efficiency Point

In the latest edition of the Centrifugal Pump Minute, James Farley, Senior Director of Product Management for Griswold, discusses why the best efficiency point is so important and how it happens with a centrifugal pump. During the discussion, James also provides an example of pump reliability versus radial thrust.
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Centrifugal Pump Basics: Performance Curves

Join James Farley, Senior Director of Product Management for Griswold, as he discusses pump performance curves in the latest edition of the Centrifugal Pump Minute. In this video, James describes the elements of a performance curve and how to read one correctly.
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Centrifugal Pump Basics: Types of Impellers and Specific Speed

In the latest edition of the Centrifugal Pump Minute, we discuss the different types of impellers as well as specific speed and how it is calculated.
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Centrifugal Pump Basics: Types of Impellers

In this edition of the Centrifugal Pump Minute, James Farley, Senior Director of Product Management for Griswold, takes a look at the different types of centrifugal pump impellers. Additionally, James discusses how the impeller impacts a pump’s hydraulic performance.
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Centrifugal Pump Basics: Types of Centrifugal Pumps

How many different types of centrifugal pumps are there? Find out by watching the latest Centrifugal Pump Minute with James Farley, Senior Director of Product Management for Griswold.
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Centrifugal Pump Basics: How it Works

In this edition of the Centrifugal Pump Minute, James Farley, Senior Director of Product Management for Griswold, goes through how a centrifugal pump is constructed and illustrates how the pump operates.
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Centrifugal Pump Basics: History

Do you know the history of centrifugal pumps? In this Centrifugal Pump Minute, we provide a brief overview of centrifugal pumps and discuss the various design updates that have taken place over the years.
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